The Casablanca Australian One sheet can now be seen.
When I compared it to the other one sheet sold back in 2006, I thought it was faded in comparison to this one. However, upon closer inspection, they are two different printers.
The upcoming copy is printed by "posters pty ltd", whilst the 2006 copy is printed by Marchant.
Casablanca ( 1942 ). Although previewed in the U.S.A. in late 1942 the official release only took place in early 1943. The 16th Academy Awards were held on March 2 1944, where Casablanca was nominated and won the Best Picture Award for 1943.
The new poster here in question isn't a 1949 Australian re-release, as it has pre 1948 censorship rating printed on it.
Casablanca was given only ( for whatever reason ) a two state Australian release in Western Australia and South Australia in 1943.
After the Academy Awards were held in 1944, and later in the year, the film was released in N.S.W. followed by Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania at various times.
Both posters were produced for the Australian first release. The Marchant version definitely was printed for the 1943 limited first release. The Posters Pty.Ltd. version was printed in 1944 after Casablanca won the Best Picture award, to be used for the now Australian wide release of the film.
Posters Pty.Ltd. is an obscure printer of film posters with little known about this firm, although they were around during this period of time.
Note also that the new Posters Pty.Ltd. one sheet is credited by Heritage as also being 1944.
Lawrence, are you saying that the poster they say is 1942 is actually late 1943 and that the 1944 post-Awards release was a continuation of that same release? Can you find newspaper ads showing when either release began?
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Lawrence, are you saying that the poster they say is 1942 is actually late 1943 and that the 1944 post-Awards release was a continuation of that same release? Can you find newspaper ads showing when either release began?
Great to see you posting, and thanks very, very much for doing so!
Hi Bruce. Thank you for your kind words.
Following are newspaper clippings covering the first three capitol city releases of Casablanca in Australia.
Adelaide SA September 4 1943 advertisement, stating the film opened there the day before on September 3.
Perth WA September 17 1943 announcing the film was screening that night.
SYDNEY NSW JUNE 1944. Three months after the oscar presentations and Casablanca winning the best picture award.
The first release of the film in Victoria, Queensland, and Tasmania occured later in 1944, along with the ACT.
The first release of Casablanca in Australia started September 3, 1943 in South Australia and for whatever reason the release was spred out over a year plus, with the final state Tasmania only screening the film in December 1944.
Interestingly another Bogart film The Big Shot (1942 ) didn't receive an Australian release until 1945. More information can be found on an earlier thread that I started in June 2017 titled Bogart's The Big Show. Film releases in Australia years ago were sometimes delayed from the time the films were screened overseas, until such time that they obtained a release here.
I thought it would be more colourful if I am being honest I wonder if it could be a 2nd printing?
Anyways,
it sure seems like eventually almost every thing is going to surface
Aussie poster wise at some point given what has popped up over the last
couple years - let's hope for Dracula, Mummy & Bride of Frankenstein
next!
I thought it would be more colourful if I am being honest I wonder if it could be a 2nd printing?
Anyways,
it sure seems like eventually almost every thing is going to surface
Aussie poster wise at some point given what has popped up over the last
couple years - let's hope for Dracula, Mummy & Bride of Frankenstein
next!
This is a good point! I did think this myself to be honest.
Can...worms...opened...
It was recently brought to my attention that the printer is Lonsdale and Bartholomew, who also printed what seems to be the second printing of the Squatter's Daughter daybill, so who knows....queue Lawrence....
My two cents worth. I had though it didn't look up to the standard of Australian RKO daybills from the 1930's in colour or quality of artwork. An original printed 1933 daybill should have been Simmons produced. The printer on the daybill appears to have been trimmed off, but if the printer as Ves mentioned is Lonsdale And Bartholomew it certainly appears to be a second printing.
The reason for this thinking is that the RKO Radio logo used in this form using a border was used in 1934 and then replaced in 1935 with RKO Radio Pictures appearing within a circle logo on daybills. This then must indicate that the poster in question was printed sometime in-between 1933 and 1935 as a second printing. One thing that I must point out though is that I have six examples of RKO daybills with this bordered style of logo used in 1934, but none at all from 1933, the year that King Kong was released in Australia.
1934 Hawaiian Nights and 1935 Becky Sharp examples of styles of logos used and the quality / colour of these first release Simmons RKO daybill,s compared to the King Kong poster.
I have just recently come across some information regarding the first release of King Kong in Australia that I imagine most people are not aware of, and hopefully should be of interest. I will include this information within my Hondo's This And That Thread, along with some The Endless Summer Australian daybill thoughts soon.
Thanks to Ves for the posted RKO daybills. Fangs And Claws ( 1935 ) was released in Australia in 1936.
Following are the RKO logos used on Australian daybills 1932-1936, according to the examples that I have managed to locate. There may have been a small crossover, but it appears that the following logos would have been used on daybills throughout most of each of the years that they are credited with below.
Now regarding the King Kong daybill in discussion with the 1934 RKO logo. It would be of great benefit to sight a 1933 RKO released in Australia printed daybill, just to see what style of logo was used in 1933. I have never sighted one, so if anyone has an image that falls into this category please let us see it? There were 49 films released in 1933 in the USA by RKO, so although the Australian releases wouldn't have been exactly the same titles they should have been somewhere around that number of releases one has to think, which is a lot. Where are they, at least one image, is what one has to wonder?
One last thing to have a think about is the logo on the King Kong poster is different from the six other images that I have located.
The six other 1934 versions of the style used, and the different King Kong style logo.
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When I compared it to the other one sheet sold back in 2006, I thought it was faded in comparison to this one. However, upon closer inspection, they are two different printers.
The upcoming copy is printed by "posters pty ltd", whilst the 2006 copy is printed by Marchant.
I might have to ask a guru for their opinion!
What do you guys and girls think?
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Casablanca ( 1942 ). Although previewed in the U.S.A. in late 1942 the official release only took place in early 1943. The 16th Academy Awards were held on March 2 1944, where Casablanca was nominated and won the Best Picture Award for 1943.
The new poster here in question isn't a 1949 Australian re-release, as it has pre 1948 censorship rating printed on it.
Casablanca was given only ( for whatever reason ) a two state Australian release in Western Australia and South Australia in 1943.
After the Academy Awards were held in 1944, and later in the year, the film was released in N.S.W. followed by Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania at various times.
Both posters were produced for the Australian first release. The Marchant version definitely was printed for the 1943 limited first release. The Posters Pty.Ltd. version was printed in 1944 after Casablanca won the Best Picture award, to be used for the now Australian wide release of the film.
Posters Pty.Ltd. is an obscure printer of film posters with little known about this firm, although they were around during this period of time.
Note also that the new Posters Pty.Ltd. one sheet is credited by Heritage as also being 1944.
Great to see you posting, and thanks very, very much for doing so!
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Hi Bruce. Thank you for your kind words.
Following are newspaper clippings covering the first three capitol city releases of Casablanca in Australia.
Adelaide SA September 4 1943 advertisement, stating the film opened there the day before on September 3.
Perth WA September 17 1943 announcing the film was screening that night.
SYDNEY NSW JUNE 1944. Three months after the oscar presentations and Casablanca winning the best picture award.
The first release of the film in Victoria, Queensland, and Tasmania occured later in 1944, along with the ACT.
The first release of Casablanca in Australia started September 3, 1943 in South Australia and for whatever reason the release was spred out over a year plus, with the final state Tasmania only screening the film in December 1944.
Interestingly another Bogart film The Big Shot (1942 ) didn't receive an Australian release until 1945. More information can be found on an earlier thread that I started in June 2017 titled Bogart's The Big Show. Film releases in Australia years ago were sometimes delayed from the time the films were screened overseas, until such time that they obtained a release here.
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Can...worms...opened...
It was recently brought to my attention that the printer is Lonsdale and Bartholomew, who also printed what seems to be the second printing of the Squatter's Daughter daybill, so who knows....queue Lawrence....
The reason for this thinking is that the RKO Radio logo used in this form using a border was used in 1934 and then replaced in 1935 with RKO Radio Pictures appearing within a circle logo on daybills. This then must indicate that the poster in question was printed sometime in-between 1933 and 1935 as a second printing. One thing that I must point out though is that I have six examples of RKO daybills with this bordered style
1934 Hawaiian Nights and 1935 Becky Sharp examples of styles of logos used and the quality / colour of these first release Simmons RKO daybill,s compared to the King Kong poster.
I have just recently come across some information regarding the first release of King Kong in Australia that I imagine most people are not aware of, and hopefully should be of interest. I will include this information within my Hondo's This And That Thread, along with some The Endless Summer Australian daybill thoughts soon.
The Richest Girl in the World (34)
Fang and Claw (35)
Thanks to Ves for the posted RKO daybills. Fangs And Claws ( 1935 ) was released in Australia in 1936.
Following are the RKO logos used on Australian daybills 1932-1936, according to the examples that I have managed to locate. There may have been a small crossover, but it appears that the following logos would have been used on daybills throughout most of each of the years that they are credited with below.
-----1932--------1933-------1934-----1935-----1935 /36
Now regarding the King Kong daybill in discussion with the 1934 RKO logo. It would be of great benefit to sight a 1933 RKO released in Australia printed daybill, just to see what style of logo was used in 1933. I have never sighted one, so if anyone has an image that falls into this category please let us see it? There were 49 films released in 1933 in the USA by RKO, so although the Australian releases wouldn't have been exactly the same titles they should have been somewhere around that number of releases one has to think, which is a lot. Where are they, at least one image, is what one has to wonder?
One last thing to have a think about is the logo on the King Kong poster is different from the six other images that I have located.
The six other 1934 versions of the style used, and the different King Kong style logo.
From a 1934 edition:
And finally: